Image Team Leads selected as awardees of the inaugural University of Arizona Big Idea Challenge July 28, 2025 Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) at the University of Arizona is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. David Margolis as its faculty director. Read more
Image What It Takes to Grow Produce in Space July 27, 2025 This initiative aims to study the requirement for a bioregenerative life support system that can recycle waste materials, water, nutrients, and air. NASA is investigating technologies such as developing planting substrate in space and controlled environment agricultural systems. A range of crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and leafy greens, must be produced by space agriculture systems. Read more
Image A quarter of the planet faces extremely high water stress. Meet the innovators trying to change that July 29, 2024 Groundwater forecasting, aquaculture, and helping smallholders were winning innovation areas in the latest innovation challenge from nonprofit FoodShot Global, which hosts challenges for entrepreneurs based on a particular issue related to food, agriculture and/or environment. Dr. Laura Condon was a winner, and her team's innovation is receiving broad attention. Read more
Image ‘The power behind women leaders’: Inaugural SSWIMS fellows celebrate success July 26, 2024 A fellowship for women in medicine and science, including VIP Team Leader Dr. Salma Patel (left, with another SSWIMS fellow Dr. Sujata Saha, right), supported projects that are improving education, research and patient care — and preparing participants for leadership. Read more
Image AZ Farmers Using Solar Panels to Shade Crops: researchers find plants grown under solar panels are larger & healthier July 17, 2024 This initiative aims to study how solar panels can be used to help shade crops, known as agrivoltaics. This innovative approach allows food and renewable energy production to coexist in the same space. Read more
Image Vertically Integrated Projects Announces New Faculty Director Dr. David Margolis July 16, 2024 Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) at the University of Arizona is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. David Margolis as its faculty director. Read more
Image New Edition of Acclaimed ‘Humans R Social Media’ Crafted from Faculty-Student Collaboration June 12, 2024 “Students know so much about the online world. It’s essential to involve that knowledge in what we teach. I started collecting student stories for our podcast Social Media & Ourselves in 2018, but it was the iVoices Media Lab that supercharged the involvement of student voices in what our students learned." Read more
Image Widely used climate theory doesn't 'ring' true, according to new tree data June 3, 2024 New data on over 1,500 trees across nearly 1,000 sites shows that an existing theory of how individuals within a species will respond to a changing climate might not be true. Read more
VIP Inaugural Poster Session to be held Monday, March 25 Feb. 29, 2024 The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program at UArizona is holding its Inaugural Poster Session on Monday, March 25, from 2 to 4 pm in the Forum (First Floor) of the Health Sciences Innovation Building at the University of Arizona Tucson campus. Read more
